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Cairo, Dār al-kutub, riyāḍiyyāt Taymūr 141

[Black-and-white microfilm scans of the textblock, colour photographs of pp. 129–144.]

Collection of eight works: Arabic. Date:

pp. 102–127 completed on 23 Rabīʿ al-thānī 1152/30 July 1739; remainder of the manuscript undated, c. 1100/1700 (King).

Or.:

Maghreb (King); unknown scribes.

Prov.:

an oval stamp by Aḥmad Taymūr Bāshā dated 1340/1921-2 (p. 1). The last items listed in the table of contents on p. 1 are not in the manuscript but coincide with parts of MS Cairo, Dār al-Kutub, riyāḍiyyāt Taymūr 139; hence, it is possible that the two manuscripts were once bound together (King).

Cod.: paper, 170 pp. (paginated with Hindu-Arabic numerals at the centre top; flyleaves not recognisable on the scans; catchwords). Seven different maghribī hands, typically copying a single work each; additions by several maghribī and some naskh hands. Hand on pp. 129–144 (including the Ptolemaic work): fully dotted ductus, some ligatures, rare diacritics; red ink for titles, chapter beginnings, formulaic expressions and verbum numbering (in abjad notation). A carelessly drawn horoscope with abjad numerals in red (p. 142). The remainder of the manuscript includes tables, diagrams with abjad numerals, and magical shapes, mostly carelessly drawn. Dimensions: 20×14 cm; 23 lines per page for the Ptolemaic work. Codex in good condition; binding seemingly loose in multiple places.

Cont.: astrology and astronomy. — Index: (building on King): table of contents with page references (p. 1); Abū Maʿshar, Kitāb al-Iqtirānāt wa-l-ittiṣālāt (pp. 2–22); Muḥammad b. Saʿīd al-Sūsī al-Maghrītī, al-Mumtiʿ fī Sharḥ al-maqnaʿ (pp. 24–100); Abū Zayd ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Fāsī, al-Maṭlab al-kabīr fī-mā yataʿallu bi-qaṣīdat al-shaykh Ibn Saʿīd (pp. 102–127); Ptolemaica (pp. 129–141); anonymous, al-Risāla al-jafriyya fī qirānāt al-milla al-ḥanafiyya wa-l-dawla al-tawḥīdiyya (pp. 141–144); anonymous, Ṣifat takhṭīṭ al-rukhāma al-mabsūṭa li-ʿarḍ lj m (pp. 146–156, probably for Fes); ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Tājūrī, Fī maʿrifat waḍʿ bayt al-ibra ʿalā l-jihāt al-arbaʿa (pp. 158–166); Alexander Dhū l-Qarnayn, Faṣl fī maʿrifat al-sana bi-l-ayyām al-sabʿa (pp. 166–167). Pages between the works filled with unidentified short texts and poems. Blank: pp. 168, 170, flyleaves.

Bibl.: David A. King, Fihris al-makhṭūṭāt al-ʿilmiyya al-maḥfūẓa bi-Dār al-Kutub al-Miṣriyya, 2 vols, Cairo: General Egyptian Book Organisation, 1981–1986, vol. I, pp. 592–593; vol. II, p. 653.

pp. 129–⁠141	\p. 129\ ⟨…⟩ كتاب الثمرة لبطليموس ترتيب الفقيه أبي العبّاس أحمد بن يوسف الكمّاد قال بطليموس قد قدّمنا لك يا سورى كتبًا فيما تؤثّره الكواكب في عالم التركيب كثيرة المنفعة في تقدمة المعرفة وهذا الكتاب ثمرة ما اشتملت عليه الكتب وما خلّص على التجربة منها وليس ينبغي أن يميل إلى معرفته من لم يمعن النظر في جميع ما قدّمنا قبله وفي علوم أخر من العلوم الرياضيّة فكن به سعيدًا. — \p. 141\ وإن اتّصل صاحب الطالع بكوكب في وسط السماء قذف الدواء ولم يستقرّ تمّ كتاب الثمرة لبطليموس. = Pseudo-Ptolemy, Kitāb al-Thamara (B.1.1) , version with verba sorted by Ibn al-Kammād. — Title: Kitāb al-Thamara li-Baṭlīmūs tartīb al-faqīh Abī l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. Yūsuf al-Kammād (p. 129). — Additional titles: Kitāb al-Thamara li-Baṭlīmūs (p. 141); Kitāb al-Thamara li-Baṭlamyūs (later marginal note, p. 129). — Index: 100 verba sorted in eight chapters: Chapter I, pp. 129–130; II, pp. 130–131; III, pp. 131–133; IV, p. 133; V, pp. 133–134; VI, pp. 134–139; VII, pp. 139–140; VIII, pp. 140–141. — Undated scribal colophon. A few marginal corrections by the scribe. Verba numbered in-text with abjad numerals or numbers written out in full, starting from 1 in each chapter. Verbum 10 of Chapter 7, corresponding to verbum 39 in the non-sorted version, was skipped in the numbering and an abbreviated version of its text incorporated in the preceding verbum.

pp. 129–⁠141

\p. 129\ ⟨…⟩ كتاب الثمرة لبطليموس ترتيب الفقيه أبي العبّاس أحمد بن يوسف الكمّاد قال بطليموس قد قدّمنا لك يا سورى كتبًا فيما تؤثّره الكواكب في عالم التركيب كثيرة المنفعة في تقدمة المعرفة وهذا الكتاب ثمرة ما اشتملت عليه الكتب وما خلّص على التجربة منها وليس ينبغي أن يميل إلى معرفته من لم يمعن النظر في جميع ما قدّمنا قبله وفي علوم أخر من العلوم الرياضيّة فكن به سعيدًا. — \p. 141\ وإن اتّصل صاحب الطالع بكوكب في وسط السماء قذف الدواء ولم يستقرّ تمّ كتاب الثمرة لبطليموس.

= Pseudo-Ptolemy, Kitāb al-Thamara (B.1.1)

, version with verba sorted by Ibn al-Kammād. — Title: Kitāb al-Thamara li-Baṭlīmūs tartīb al-faqīh Abī l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad b. Yūsuf al-Kammād (p. 129). — Additional titles: Kitāb al-Thamara li-Baṭlīmūs (p. 141); Kitāb al-Thamara li-Baṭlamyūs (later marginal note, p. 129). — Index: 100 verba sorted in eight chapters: Chapter I, pp. 129–130; II, pp. 130–131; III, pp. 131–133; IV, p. 133; V, pp. 133–134; VI, pp. 134–139; VII, pp. 139–140; VIII, pp. 140–141. — Undated scribal colophon. A few marginal corrections by the scribe. Verba numbered in-text with abjad numerals or numbers written out in full, starting from 1 in each chapter. Verbum 10 of Chapter 7, corresponding to verbum 39 in the non-sorted version, was skipped in the numbering and an abbreviated version of its text incorporated in the preceding verbum.